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Oh no! It was great rooting for you!
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Goon grats!
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Oct 25, 2018 23:01
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How big of a douche was Dhruv? 'I have one chance to say something interesting about myself what should I say?' "I'm a Brahmin!" 
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Oct 25, 2018 23:44
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Let me just say that while I am friends with almost everyone that I was on with that day who we found/has a Facebook account, there is one glaring exception 
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Oct 26, 2018 00:16
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Are old Jeopardy episodes on demand or something? I wanna watch this.
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Oct 26, 2018 00:22
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Are old Jeopardy episodes on demand or something? I wanna watch this. Check the daily threads on https://www.reddit.com/r/jeopardy HookShot, awesome work, and that Congress clue was cruel to a Canadian. Dhruv seems uhhhh interesting, besides sounding like Aziz Ansari.
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Oct 26, 2018 00:31
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There's also a dailymotion account that has them all. Hahaha everyone was like "oh I felt SO BAD for you on that Congress clue", that was such a mean question for a Canadian. I felt like such an idiot after. I should have just said "ways and means" with nothing else, but it had taken me so long to even come up with that part of it, like I legitimately have no idea where that answer came from in my brain, I have no reason to have ever heard that, that I just panicked and took the word from the clue to shove in front of it and ended up with "department", which was obviously wrong. Still, I'm not going to lie, I went home after and googled "Department of Ways and Means" just in case. Also FWIW I am fairly certain that Dhruv might be very lightly on the spectrum or something. My husband congratulated him afterwards, and he literally said "thanks" really brusquely and brushed past him LOL. Not trashing his game at all, since he played really well, but just that as a human it may not be entirely his fault that he comes off as he did on TV. HookShot fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Oct 26, 2018 |
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Oct 26, 2018 00:43
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Also, I had literally never heard of the Baltimore Orioles because I know absolutely zero about baseball. I got orioles from "aurum", and then was like uhhhhh I don't know what else to put there" hahaha.
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Oct 26, 2018 00:46
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That FJ was unfair to us noble Canucks  Great job HookShot!
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Oct 26, 2018 00:58
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I understand they have to be picky, but I'm pissed they didn't accept "department of ways and means" because if you had just said "ways and means" and not "committee of ways and means", you know they would've accepted it. Still, great job! 
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Oct 26, 2018 01:23
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HookShot posted:Also, I had literally never heard of the Baltimore Orioles because I know absolutely zero about baseball. I got orioles from "aurum", and then was like uhhhhh I don't know what else to put there" hahaha. I am a baseball nerd and botched this one - I read the clue as asking for the California state bird (Golden State) and blew it. I'm impressed with anyone who got it with Latin.
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Oct 26, 2018 01:32
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I understand they have to be picky, but I'm pissed they didn't accept "department of ways and means" because if you had just said "ways and means" and not "committee of ways and means", you know they would've accepted it. Hahah I KNOW that was what I was killed myself over after for panicking about. On the spot I thought they wouldn't have accepted "ways and means" on its own so I panickedly threw out another word and it was wrong. But hey, what can you do, that's the game. My husband jokingly suggested I start a campaign of people asking in the Facebook comments to have me brought back because of that LOL.
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Oct 26, 2018 01:43
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Also, if my math was wrong, which is likely was (I haven't watched the episode yet) it's because holy poo poo. They finished the game, we made our wagers, then they decided to change those sea of dreams clues. Except they changed their minds on who gets credit for what like four times, and THEN they hosed up the numbers on the board, and THEN we had to make our final wagers. All in all it took 20 minutes before we were able to make our wagers and holy poo poo I was exhausted. I initially tried to figure out what I had to wager to do what I wanted (I was trying to wager so if I got it right and the others got it wrong I would have won) but I have no idea if I did it right. I did the math once and then the answer was like "you need to bet $32,000" and I was like "well drat that's not right" and so I tried again and I figured out a number and added $100 to it just in case because I didn't trust my math AT ALL. But yeah, that honestly messed with at least Jill and I so much haha. Probably Dhruv too. It was super stressful for all of us, and it just took SO LONG.
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Oct 26, 2018 03:10
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Yeah that ways and means thing was bullshit. But still an awesome job 
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Oct 26, 2018 03:15
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You did a great job at getting back into the game after Dhruv dominated the buzzer early and that unfortunate daily double. I felt so sorry for Jill after that final. You even heard her sigh in the background after your answer was denied. This is maybe a dumb question but exactly what wording were they going for with "wheel, kiln, glazing tongs"? A potter?
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Oct 26, 2018 03:23
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Yeah i'm a huge baseball nerd, but not a Latin one, and I had no clue on FJ. Tough break on the DD, I feel like that should have been acceptable.
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Oct 26, 2018 03:24
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The Baltimore Orioles are the only baseball team I follow (thanks to my grandfather) and I still didn’t get that final jeopardy 
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Oct 26, 2018 03:26
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dads friend steve posted:Yeah that ways and means thing was bullshit. But still an awesome job how? it’s not a dept. or are you just saying it’s hosed up the canadian got it? because yea, that sucks for her, though i doubt most americans knew it either
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Oct 26, 2018 03:53
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I knew the Latin for gold but didn't connect it with orioles until I already made the baseball connection since orange and black are the team colors that I saw enough of when they played the Yankees, and then stuck the city name on to complete the name because it specified two words. And looking on FB, you do have a couple of people demanding you be brought back because they thought the judges were too strict on Ways and Means. I happen to disagree with them (and Vaughn Winchell is hitting back on them as well), but you still played an amazing game out there. You have at least one up on the rest of the Goon Jeopardy club in that you actually won a game, too. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Oct 26, 2018 |
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Oct 26, 2018 03:56
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Abel Wingnut posted:how? it’s not a dept. or are you just saying it’s hosed up the canadian got it? because yea, that sucks for her, though i doubt most americans knew it either I’m not saying anything is hosed up. I think the judges were too harsh in disqualifying her answer because she said “department” and it sometimes feels like they’re a bit capricious
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Oct 26, 2018 04:22
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dads friend steve posted:I’m not saying anything is hosed up. I think the judges were too harsh in disqualifying her answer because she said “department” and it sometimes feels like they’re a bit capricious Eh, if you add incorrect details to an otherwise correct answer, they're gonna rule you wrong. They pretty much tell you that beforehand in the Green Room.
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Oct 26, 2018 04:24
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GhostStalker posted:Eh, if you add incorrect details to an otherwise correct answer, they're gonna rule you wrong. They pretty much tell you that beforehand in the Green Room. Yeah, that’s true. It just seems a bit inconsistent when adding one incorrect detail will get you marked wrong but there’s fairly wide latitude in over-broad responses
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Oct 26, 2018 04:44
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I had no idea the bird was actually called the Baltimore Oriole...I thought it was just Oriole and blanked on what other word they were looking for. Whenever I hear the baseball team I thought it was just like them saying Chicago Cubs, or New York Yankees so the Baltimore Baltimore Orioles made no sense when thinking about the clue.
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Oct 26, 2018 05:47
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wa27 posted:This is maybe a dumb question but exactly what wording were they going for with "wheel, kiln, glazing tongs"? A potter? And yeah, I totally get it on the ways and means clue. Though if they did call me back I wouldn't say no But I'm definitely not expecting it or anything haha. I shouldn't have added to it, but in my moment of panic I thought not adding to it would get me a wrong answer for sure.Thanks, everyone! It was a ton of fun for sure
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Oct 26, 2018 06:27
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banned from Starbucks posted:I had no idea the bird was actually called the Baltimore Oriole...I thought it was just Oriole and blanked on what other word they were looking for. Whenever I hear the baseball team I thought it was just like them saying Chicago Cubs, or New York Yankees so the Baltimore Baltimore Orioles made no sense when thinking about the clue. Orioles are widespread across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic (I spent the spring and summer here in Wisconsin attracting them to my balcony with orange peels and slices). Generally speaking, the Orioles' mascot in Baltimore is just referred to as the O-Bird.
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Oct 26, 2018 06:34
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Timby posted:the O-Bird  
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Oct 26, 2018 10:31
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I only got the FJ because of baseball. I immediately said "Oriole" but then reread it and noticed it said "2-word" and the Baltimore Oriole is the only type of Oriole I've heard of.
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Oct 26, 2018 13:04
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I knew it 'cause of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9B0a9WowPI
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Oct 26, 2018 15:29
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Oof, what was that wager, Dhruv? He was in such a great spot to hang on in a triple stumper.
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Spraynard Kruger posted:Oof, what was that wager, Dhruv? He was in such a great spot to hang on in a triple stumper. FWIW, he asked me why I wagered what I did after my first show, and then needed everyone to explain to him why Erik bet what he bet, when that was definitely Final Jeopardy Betting 101.
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Oct 27, 2018 05:37
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Wow, that's... yeah.
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Oct 27, 2018 10:34
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Sad to see Tori go! She was the one I was closest to during the taping, and then by chance our husbands spent the whole day hanging out, too. We chatted with them a whole bunch the next day, too. Jeff on Thursday is the last of the contestants from my taping left. He's seriously so nice. I also met one of Friday's contestants (Jon) in the hotel lobby the next day, since he and Jeff took the same Uber back and we ran into them on our way back from sightseeing. We were the only two Canadians in the two days of taping haha. He's pretty awesome, too. EVERYONE IS AWESOME.
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 Elon Musk is not British, is not an inventor1, and is not involved in household appliances.1 I know the clue said innovator and not inventor, but the the ballbarrow part means the right answer is somebody who's an inventor. El Jeffe fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Oct 31, 2018 |
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Oct 31, 2018 19:30
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I own a loving Dyson (because I'm stupid as poo poo) and I somehow didn't connect the ballbarrow to Dyson
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Trebek has been re-signed until 2022: https://deadline.com/2018/10/pat-sajak-vanna-white-alex-trebek-wheel-of-fortune-jeopardy-renew-contracts-1202493329/ Pat and Vanna will continue to suffer fools until 2022 as well.
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Nov 1, 2018 01:08
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I got Dyson but only because of the balls in their vacuum cleaners and I couldn't think of another company famous for balls (or wheelbarrows)
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:Trebek has been re-signed until 2022: I was curious who had the longest-tenured game show host record and apparently sites say it's Trebek because Sajak started in 81 but left in 89 to do a different show. But wikipedia says he's hosted the syndicated version continually since 83, which would still put him a year before Trebek by my math. So I don't know why Trebek is in the Guinness record books for that. In any case, I'm happy to see four more years of Alex if he can stay healthy and wants to keep doing it. I think he still does a great job.
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Nov 1, 2018 03:47
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Those extra two years should give me time to learn about US Civics and baseball 
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Nov 1, 2018 05:33
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So much of Jeopardy is Trebek’s corny personality. I can’t see myself enjoying it as much without him. I’m glad we have another couple years at least.
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Zesty posted:So much of Jeopardy is Trebek’s corny personality. I can’t see myself enjoying it as much without him. I’m glad we have another couple years at least. His latest attempt to step out of that personality, hosting/moderating the Pennsylvania Governor's debate last month, didn't go over well, apparently. A lot of "don't quit your day job" type responses. And now I guess he won't for another two years. Like, when he's not on camera, he's a lot less formal-ish, it's like he's a totally different person interacting with the audience.
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